Top 1200 Suspense Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

I love Walter Mosley and Robert Parker crime novels. And I read a lot of music reviews.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.

There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning.

Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different world.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.

Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done.

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits.

I received so many positive comments about the quotes that I decided to continue to use them in my novels.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

I was supposed to be cleaning out the barn, but I was usually reading romance novels. That's how you grow up to be a thriller writer.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.